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How much heat can the FireLite SUL-1100 Titanium Cookpot take?

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Ulrika Dahlin
PostedDec 31, 2007 at 9:24 pm

How much heat can the FireLite SUL-1100 Titanium Cookpot take?

I am wondering if it will damage the pot if you run it on the stove dry?

The reason I am asking is that I was thinking of doing some baking in it. Where you have the SUL-1100 Titanium Cookpot as an outer pot with no liquid in it, a titanium stand and then a smaller inner pot with something I want to bake inside.

Will the FireLite SUL-1100 Titanium Cookpot take the abuse of beeing heated with no liquid in it?

Thank you very much for all help I can get.

Yours Ulrika from Sweden.

Roger Caffin BPL Member
PostedJan 1, 2008 at 1:22 am

> How much heat can the FireLite SUL-1100 Titanium Cookpot take?
Titanium has a melting point about 220 C higher than steel, about 1,700 C or so. This is VERY bright red!

However, all metals which have been formed can warp or distort at very high temperatures. This includes titanium.

I suspect that if you don't heat the pot too much it should be OK. Don't get it so hot that it starts to glow. If it warps – sorry about that. But the pot will still cook OK.

Cheers

Fred eric BPL Member
PostedJan 7, 2008 at 2:14 am

After a few trip using it with my bushbuddy, i cleaned the soot at home by heating the pot for a few mins with a camping gaz super carena R 3000W.
It burned all the soot , the titanium turned bright red for the pot base, and after cooling the pot was a mix of blue colors, but otherwise it didnt seemed to suffer from this.

edit : the pot was empty when i heated it of course.

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